Wireshark for Mac
Network protocol analyzer.
Free
In English
Version 4.2.6When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Wireshark overview
Wireshark is one of the world's foremost network protocol analyzers, and is the standard in many parts of the industry. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Hundreds of developers around the world have contributed to it, and it it still under active development.
Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:
- Standard three-pane packet browser
- Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
- Multi-interface: Along with a standard GUI, Wireshark includes TShark, a text-mode analyzer which is useful for remote capture, analysis, and scripting
- The most powerful display filters in the industry
- VoIP analysis
- Live capture and offline analysis are supported
- Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), NAI's Sniffer (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer Pro, NetXray, Sun snoop and atmsnoop, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, AIX's iptrace, Microsoft's Network Monitor, Novell's LANalyzer, RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer, HP-UX nettl, i4btrace from the ISDN4BSD project, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, the pppd log (pppdump-format), the AG Group's/WildPacket's EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, Visual Networks' Visual UpTime and many others
- Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
- Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time
- Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list, which eases analysis
What’s new in version 4.2.6
The following bugs have been fixed:
- RADIUS dissector’s dictionary loading broken in many ways. Issue 6466.
- 3.4 → 3.6.5 ASCII display is broken on CentOS 7. Issue 18096.
- Funnel/Lua: Closing child window disconnects buttons of parent. Issue 18386.
- Lua detection fails with Alpine Linux: missing: LUA_LIBRARIES. Issue 19841.
- vnd.3gpp.5gnas payloads of type SMS not decoded inside HTTP2 5GC. Issue 19845.
- TCP Stream Graphs green sliding window line not displayed correctly. Issue 19846.
- Wireshark window doesn’t fully fit on screen on small resolutions and can’t be resized properly on Russian language. Issue 19861.
- Wireshark started from command line doesn’t set gui.fileopen_remembered_dir correctly on Windows. Issue 19891.
- Wireshark expects wrong length for DHCP Relay Agent Information Source Port Suboption. Issue 19909.
- SIP P-Access-Network-Info header not correctly decoded. Issue 19917.
Full list of changes available here
Wireshark for Mac
Free
In English
Version 4.2.6
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Jun 16 2022
Version: 3.6.6
There is a native ARM version of Wireshark now as well. M1 & M2 Mac users need not bother with the Intel version. You'll find it at the Dev site: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Apr 15 2022
Version: 3.6.3
ARM versions of Wireshark are now available. If you have an M1 series Mac, be sure to get the Wireshark macOS Arm 64-bit .dmg version! The general downloads page is here: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Apr 23 2021
Version: 3.4.5
The swiss army knife of packet analyzers. Incredible.
Jul 28 2019
Version: 3.1.0
Hey guys, was curious if there is anyone here that uses Homebrew, I had upgraded to Wireshark 3.1.0 via the cask command in brew, then they released an update that put it back to version 3.0.3, which I had initially. I was just curious why? Thanks
